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for the Week of April 24 to May 1, 2011
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Posted 2011-04-30:
- Spinstars: First polluters of the universe? Imprints of fast rotating massive stars in Milky Way's bulge
- Electron ping pong in the nano-world
- Understanding how glasses 'relax' provides some relief for manufacturers
Posted 2011-04-30:
- New solar cell technology greatly boosts efficiency
- A better imaging agent for heart disease and breast cancer
- NASA's Swift and Hubble probe asteroid collision debris
- Fine chemical processes safer and more efficient with new type of reactor
- NASA technology looks inside Japan's nuclear reactor
- Astronomers unveil portrait of 'exotic super-Earth:' Densest known rocky planet
- Shielding body protects brain from 'shell shocking' blast injuries: Even mild blast exposure damages nerve cells in mice, study shows
- New microchip revolutionizes medical approach for monitoring for risk of sudden infant death syndrome
- Romance is not dead: Digital puts the spark back into relationships
- Will it fall? Scientists show how the brain's estimate of Newton's laws affects perceived object stability
- Voyager probes set to enter interstellar space
- Andromeda’s coat of many colors
- Improved recovery of samples from biohazard events
- Online social network members donate personal data for public health research
Posted 2011-04-29:
- Artificial retinal implants must adapt to unique features of human eye to be effective, experts say
- Electronics: A step toward valleytronics
- Good eggs: Nanomagnets offer food for thought about computer memories
- Exploring the superconducting transition in ultra thin films
- Two graphene layers may be better than one
- Carbohydrate adhesion gives stainless steel implants beneficial new functions
- A surprise: China’s energy consumption will stabilize
Posted 2011-04-28:
- Neurorobotics reveals brain mechanisms of self-consciousness
- Green UV sterilization: Switching on LEDs to save energy and the environment
- Origami not just for paper anymore: DNA, folded into complex shapes, could have a big impact on nanotechnology
- Researchers advance toward hybrid spintronic computer chips
- Caterpillars inspire new movements in soft robots
- 3-D terahertz cloaking
- Mercury converted to its most toxic form in ocean waters
- Full 3-D invisibility cloak in visible light
- Novel ash analysis validates volcano no-fly zones
- Nuclear photonics: Gamma rays search for concealed nuclear threats
- New evidence on origin of supernovas
- New heat pump could last 10,000 years, experts say
- New 'nanobead' approach could revolutionize sensor technology
- Wind turbines: In the wake of the wind
- Choosing the right electric vehicles batteries for the future
- Water molecules characterize the structure of DNA genetic material
- Scientists focus on light ions for fast ignition of fusion fuels
- New system increases reliability of opinion polls
- People power: Social media can alter research priorities
- Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer heads for the International Space Station
Posted 2011-04-27:
- Effect of cloud-scattered sunlight on Earth's energy balance depends on wavelength of light
- Diamonds shine in quantum networks: Researchers hitch precious stone's impurities onto nano-resonators
- New sensor glove may help stroke patients recover mobility
- School students help astronomers study mysterious X-ray source
- Flame retardants at high levels in pet dogs, study finds
- Nanoscience may hold key to surgical recovery
- Replacing batteries may become a thing of the past, thanks to 'soft generators'
- Radar shows promise for detecting concussions in athletes and soldiers
- Safeguarding genome integrity through extraordinary DNA repair
- Solar power goes viral: Researchers use virus to improve solar-cell efficiency
- Chernobyl's radioactivity reduced populations of birds of orange plumage, study finds
- Conducting ferroelectrics may be key to new electronic memory
- New tools to tackle a solar data storm
- Self-powered, blood-activated sensor detects pancreatitis quickly and cheaply
- Increased computer use by adolescents cause for concern, Canadian study finds
- Large galaxies stopped growing seven billion years ago
Posted 2011-04-26:
- Cheaper hydrogen fuel cells: Utility of non-precious-metal catalysts documented
- Biophysicist targeting IL-6 to halt breast, prostate cancer
- Bioengineering students' invention may help diagnose painful eye condition
- New theory of evolution for spiral galaxy arms
- Zeroing in on the elusive green LED
- Radar checks buildings after earthquakes
- Beetle bling: Researchers discover optical secrets of 'metallic' beetles
- Far sighted space technology finds practical uses on Earth
- Fractal dimension analysis aids breast cancer prognosis
- Anti-helium discovered in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider experiment
- New robot to help people to walk again
- Clumsy avatars: Perfection versus mortality in games and simulation
- Optical microscope without lenses produces high-resolution 3-D images on a chip
- Development in fog harvesting process may make water available to the world’s poor
- Data miners dig for corrosion resistance
Posted 2011-04-25:
- Decoding human genes is goal of new open-source encyclopedia
- Supercomputers: 'Data deluge' is changing, expanding supercomputer-based research
- Gravitational tug of war warps spiral shape of galaxy
Posted 2011-04-24:
- Starting a new metabolic path: New technique will help metabolic engineering
- Scientists engineer nanoscale vaults to encapsulate 'nanodisks' for drug delivery
- Large Hadron Collider sets world record beam intensity
Posted 2011-04-23:
- Functioning synapse created using carbon nanotubes: Devices might be used in brain prostheses or synthetic brains
- 'Time machine' made to visually explore space and time in videos: Time-lapse GigaPans provide new way to access big data
- Huge dry ice deposit on Mars: NASA orbiter reveals big changes in Red Planet's atmosphere
- Limit to nanotechnology mass-production?
Posted 2011-04-22:
- Why biggest stellar explosions often happen in tiniest galaxies: Ultraviolet probe sheds light on mystery
- RNA nanoparticles constructed to safely deliver long-lasting therapy to cells
- Does video game violence harm teens? New study weighs the evidence
- Material that if scratched, you can quickly and easily fix yourself, with light not heat
- Kids' 'screen time' linked to early markers for cardiovascular disease
- Fat turns into soap in sewers, contributes to overflows
- CAPTCHAs with chaos: Strong protection for weak passwords
- Laser sparks revolution in internal combustion engines
- Mega wind turbines of 20 MW
- Beams of electrons link Saturn with its moon Enceladus
- Researchers now one step closer to controlled engineering of nanocatalysts
- A galactic rose highlights Hubble's 21st anniversary
- Electronic healthcare at the click of a mouse
Posted 2011-04-21:
- Protein-patterned fibers: Researchers combine active proteins with material derived from fruit fly
- Mining data from electronic records: Faster way to get genetic clues to disease
- Primordial weirdness: Did the early universe have one dimension? Scientists outline test for theory
- Nanomedicine one step closer to reality
- Ends of chromosomes protected by stacked, coiled DNA caps
- Another universe tugging on ours? Maybe not: Data from exploding stars contradicts earlier study
- '3-D towers' of information double data storage areal density
- 'Impossible' feat: Certain materials can exhibit ferromagnetism and superconductivity at same time
- Miniature invisibility 'carpet cloak' hides more than its small size implies
- Propeller turbulence may affect marine food webs, study finds
- Biologically inspired catalysts being developed
- Nanoparticles with honeycomb cavities containing drugs blast cancer cells
- Collecting the sun's energy: Novel electrode for flexible thin-film solar cells
- New biosensor microchip could speed up drug development, researchers say
- New MRI methodology revolutionizes imaging of the beating heart
- New kid on the plasmonic block: Researchers find plasmonic resonances in semiconductor nanocrystals
Posted 2011-04-20:
- LED efficiency puzzle solved by theorists using quantum-mechanical calculations
- Zoom-up star photos poke holes in century-old astronomical theory
- Probing the laws of gravity: A gravity resonance method
- Could black trees blossom in a world with two suns?
- Accelerate data storage by several orders of magnitude? Ultra-fast magnetic reversal observed
- Sugar helping map new ground against deadly bug
- Astronomers can tune in to radio auroras to find exoplanets
- X‑rays shed new light on regulation of muscle contraction
- Super-small transistor created: Artificial atom powered by single electrons
- Portable devices' built-in motion sensors improve data rates on wireless networks
- Virtual surgery shows promise in personalized treatment of nasal obstruction
- Did a supernova mark the birth of the Merry Monarch?
- Learn to run a biorefinery in a virtual control room
- Students develop thought-controlled, hands-free computer for the disabled
Posted 2011-04-19:
- Watching the birth of a sunspot
- Neutral atoms made to act like electrically charged particles
- Shocking environment of hot Jupiters
- Scientists finely control methane combustion to get different products
- New way to control magnetic properties of graphene discovered
- Nanofiber spheres carrying cells injected into wounds to grow tissue
- The heat is on: Zeroing in on energy consumption of ice makers
- Celestial fireworks from dying stars
- Introducing the world's first intubation robot
- Pier review: Comparing ultra high-resolution photographs from the past and the present could hold the key to restoring Hastings' fire-damaged pier
Posted 2011-04-18:
- Hydrocarbons deep within Earth: New computational study reveals how
- Best-ever look at pulsars: LOFAR takes the pulse of the radio sky
- Recipe for radioactive compounds aids nuclear waste and fuel storage pools studies
- Toward a 'green grid' for delivering solar and wind-based electricity
Posted 2011-04-17:
Posted 2011-04-16:
- Novel ionic liquid batteries
- New spin on graphene makes it magnetic
- A bicycle built for none: Riderless bike helps researchers learn how balance rolls along
- Forest byproducts, shells may be key to removing radioactive contaminants from drinking water
- Carbon fiber used to reinforce buildings; protect from explosion
- Fast-rotating asteroid winks for astronomer's camera
- WISE delivers millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids
- Search for dark matter moves one step closer to detecting elusive particle
- Sensor determines if packaged meat has spoiled
- NASA's next generation space telescope marks key milestone
- Lights and flat-panel displays: Researchers 'brighten' the future of organic light-emitting diode technology
- NASA announces new homes for shuttle orbiters after retirement
Posted 2011-04-15:
- DNA nanoforms: Miniature architectural forms -- some no larger than viruses -- constructed through DNA origami
- Solar power without solar cells: A hidden magnetic effect of light could make it possible
- Algae could replace 17 percent of US oil imports, study finds
- Chance discovery may revolutionize hydrogen production
- Drug potency: What happens in space?
- Keeping beer fresh longer
- Physicists create clouds of impenetrable gases that bounce off each other
- Star formation linked to sonic booms
- Lightning-fast materials testing using ultrasound
- New fracture resistance mechanisms provided by graphene
Posted 2011-04-14:
- Scientists give computers 'hindsight' to anticipate the future: Useful in online auctions
- Ceramic coatings may protect jet engines from volcanic ash
- Volcanoes reveal the cooling of Mars
- Device proves solar cell potential of high bandgap inorganic nanowire arrays
- First comprehensive gene map of the human brain: More than 90 percent similarity among humans
- Controlled production of nanometric drops
Posted 2011-04-13:
- Toward a computer model of the brain: New technique poised to untangle brain's complexity
- Public relatively unconcerned about nanotechnology risks
- Rainbow-trapping scientist now strives to slow light waves even further
- Better lasers for optical communications
- 'Alternative vote' electoral system could lock out extremist candidates, UK researcher says
- Cause of irradiation-induced instability in materials' surfaces discovered
- First galaxies were born much earlier than expected
- Forensics: Developing a tool for identification -- even using very degraded DNA samples
- World's smallest wedding rings: Interlocking rings of DNA visible through scanning force microscope
- Space jets in a bottle
- How antifreeze proteins bind to surface of ice crystals: Finding may end 30-year debate
- Tissue engineers use new system to measure biomaterials, structures
- 'Green energy' advance: Tandem catalysis in nanocrystal interfaces
- Complex composite materials: Replacement found for rare material indium tin oxide
- Why academic start-up companies can fail
Posted 2011-04-12:
- Diesel-engine exhaust filter reduces harmful particles by 98 percent
- Fracking controversy: Using water, sand and chemicals to extract natural gas from shale
- Physicists discover new way to visualize warped space and time
- NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson perform first space-Earth flute duet
- Saturn's moon Titan shaped by weather, not ice volcanoes?
- Free software makes computer mouse easier for people with disabilities
- Virtual reality lab focuses on conservation
- New research advances understanding of lead selenide nanowires
- NASA's Jupiter-bound spacecraft arrives in Florida
- Cutting-edge X-ray free electron laser facility unveiled in japan
Posted 2011-04-11:
- 'Good cholesterol' nanoparticles seek and destroy cancer cells
- Giant batteries for green power
- Are we only a hop, skip and jump away from controlled molecular motion?
Posted 2011-04-10:
- Newly merged black hole eagerly shreds stars
- Test moves U.S. Navy a step closer to lasers for ship self-defense
Posted 2011-04-09:
- NASA's next Mars rover nears completion
- NASA telescope ferrets out planet-hunting targets
- Nature helps to solve a sticky problem: Beetle foot pads may inspire novel artificial adhesives
- Quantum mapmakers complete first voyage through spin liquid
- Nanoparticles increase biofuel performance, lower emissions
- Personal touch: Hearing a heartbeat has the same effect as looking each other in the eye
- Simple chemical cocktail shows first promise for limb re-growth in mammals
- Mussel adhesive inspires tough coating for living cells
- Chemical engineers have designed molecular probe to study disease
- Video games effective treatment for stroke patients
- NASA's Kepler helps astronomers update census of sun-like stars
- Cause of short gamma-ray bursts determined
- Element germanium under pressure matches predictions of modern condensed matter theory
- Research into batteries will give electric cars the same range as gas cars, experts say
- iPad helps archaeologists
- Center to revolutionize chemical manufacture is open for business
Posted 2011-04-08:
- Mathematical model simulating rat whiskers provides insight into sense of touch
- If plants generate magnetic fields, they're not saying
- Simple arithmetic for faster, more secure websites
- Black hole may have ripped star apart causing unprecedented explosion
- Fukushima-related radioactive materials measured across entire Northern Hemisphere
- Deep-space travel could create heart health woes for astronauts
- Technique for letting brain talk to computers now tunes in speech
- Surveillance system to cut risk of space debris hitting satellites
- Common nanoparticles found to be highly toxic to Arctic ecosystem
- Personal 'geo data' as sensitive as private genetic information, experts argue
- New device promises safer way to deliver powerful drugs
- Two dying stars to be reborn as one
- Micro aircraft improves avionic systems and sensors
- Tungsten may not be the best shot for making 'green' bullets
- Off the hook: Who gets phished and why
- Taming carbon nanotubes
- Shopping online, privacy, data protection and third-party tracking
Posted 2011-04-07:
- Nano fitness: Helping enzymes stay active and keep in shape
- Third dimension of specific cell cultivation
- Improving high-speed optical data transfer by employing ideas from TV antennas
- NASA's Spitzer discovers time-delayed jets around young star
- The 'molecular octopus': A little brother of 'Schroedinger’s cat'
- Renewal of a life and physical sciences research program at NASA could facilitate longer, farther human space missions
- Frozen comet's watery past: Discovery challenges paradigm of comets as 'dirty snowballs' frozen in time
- Nanopolymer shows promise for helping reduce cancer side effects
- Electron microscopy: New type of genetic tag illuminates life in never-before-seen detail
- Scientists develop new technology for stroke rehabilitation
Posted 2011-04-06:
- Toward a solution to nerve agent exposure: Chemist uses supercomputers to test reagents for new treatments
- Cost-effective manure management, thanks to computer-simulated farms
- Economics, physics are roadblocks for mass-scale algae biodiesel production, study finds
- Invisibility cloaks and more: Force of acoustical waves tapped for metamaterials
- History of nuclear power needs to be addressed, expert says
- Scientists find new type of mineral in historic meteorite
- Nanoparticles improve solar collection efficiency
- Device enables computer to identify whether user is male or female
- Air France wreckage located nearly 2.5 miles below surface of Atlantic Ocean
- Vibrant colors in vertical silicon nanowires: Surprising phenomenon may lead to greater sensitivity in image sensor devices
- Self-cooling observed in graphene elctronics
- Oxygen sensor invention could benefit fisheries to breweries
- Mars in Spain: Subterranean springs in central pre-Pyrenees of Catalonia pose new questions for planetary geomorphology
Posted 2011-04-05:
- Chemists produce first high-resolution RNA 'nano square'
- 'In-depth' radar: Seeing what lies beneath the surface
- The Art of Making Stars
- Formaldehyde: Poison could have set the stage for the origins of life
- Twitter analysis provides stock predictions
- Physicists create tap-proof waves
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